Forgotten Majority

Advocating for the just and humane treatment of those who are incarcerated.

Month: January 2017

  • FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SPECTRUM

    Courtesy WFSU Sasha Cordner Sept. 2016 The Florida Department of Corrections is starting to implement a new program aimed at making sure released offenders don’t come back to the state’s prison system. Prison officials say Spectrum is a research-based program unique to Florida.

  • “SORRY, VISITATION NOT APPROVED!”

    Question:  Ever wonder why you are only allowed to be on one offender’s visit list if you are not their family member?  You won’t be able to visit an inmate you may be encouraging by mail or someone whose family is not in the state or someone who has no family left. It is a […]

  • MARISSA’S MAGNIFICENT MOMENT – FREE AT LAST!!!

    Free Marissa Now Statement on Marissa Alexander’s Freedom January 27, 2017  Today, after 3 years behind bars and 2 years of house detention, Marissa Alexander was finally released from state confinement.  Marissa Alexander has been punished for over 5 years for defending her life from a domestic violence attack threatening her life nine days after […]

  • ATTORNEY J. SCOTT MURPHY – HERO OF EXCELLENT REPUTE

    Learning more about this fearless crusader who takes on the cruelty and cover-ups internal to the Florida Department of Corrections? Physical abuses and medical neglect still happen far too often behind those barbed fences.  It takes a hero to seek justice for the plethora of injustices. Introducing Attorney J. Scott Murphy 3117 Edgewater Drive, Suite A […]

  • ORLANDO SENATOR FILES BILL TO BRING BACK DEATH PENALTY

    Gray Rohrer:  Contact Reporter Tallahassee Bureau January 6, 2017 In 2016, only five states in America continued to execute people. Florida was one of them. And now the United States Supreme Court said that was wrong. TALLAHASSEE — Hoping to reinstate the death penalty in Florida, a Democratic state senator from Orlando filed a bill […]